Get Back to Basics and Hand-Paddle Your Own Dessert with the Ice Cream Concept Parlour

The Ice Cream Concept Parlour was designed by a London-based design student named Ploenpit Nittaramorn to “explore and investigate the process of making ready-to-eat food.” It is also an awesome way to make some ice cream.

Using the set of wooden tools that come with the Parlour, you crush, juice, and mix whatever ingredients you’d like to use to flavor (or flavour, as the case may be) your ice cream. Then, you pour the cream, sugar, and milk onto an ice-cold marble mixing slab and swish the liquid around for a while with a pair of wooden paddles. A few minutes of swishing later, you’ve got a small cone’s worth of ice cream, about as fresh as it can get.

Even if it can’t compete for volume, Nittaramorn’s system definitely looks better than the old shake-with-ice-in-a-Ziploc-bag method. The Ice Cream Concept Parlour, being a concept, isn’t in production, but if you have some freezable slabs lying around, this could be fun to try out on some slow summer afternoons.